After the Hello Song, use this Storytime video to introduce the Unit 4 vocabulary and target language. Before playing the video, talk about the picture, doing Picture Talk to see what students notice. After, play the Unit 4 chants and follow the lesson plan, choosing an activity students would like as follow-up.

「Takes it out of you」というアクティヴィティーはやると疲れるようなことです。長時間働くことや何か難しい体を使ったアクティビティーに使います。Itとは何でしょう？それに使ったエネルギーや活力でしょう。

An activity that “takes it out of you” makes you tired. Working a long time without a rest or doing something physically difficult “takes it out of you”. What’s “it”? It’s probably all the energy you used on the demanding activity.

“A bridge too far” is an unrealistic, impossible goal. Sometimes we try to do things that just aren’t possible. Even if we make a good effort, there was no way to succeed in the first place. We can use this phrase to discourage someone from setting an impossible goal, or to explain that a goal was too ambitious. It comes from a failed mission in WWII.